Welcome to The Poetry Company
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20+ Years
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100+ Projects
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1,800+ Poets Commissioned
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43,600+ Poems Created
Featured Theme
Find Your New Favourite Love Poem
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what happened to me happens to everyone who needs me present
By Claire Gaskinit is a wooden dinghy in a storm my heart in how it affects how I am in relationship and a state library of echoing chambers in a red lit room for business and river birds yes your freedom means my imprisonment in disregard everything you couldn’t process participating in and witnessing keeps happening after the bombs stop droppi… -
Perimeter of Rectangles
By Laura PanopoulosSize one
Enervated by background noise,
recollecting my words,
they are far from push-button. -
How Water Works
By Tony Birchcup a hand
skin and bone
this water well
a beating heart
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Featured Projects
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Youth Poet Laureate
The Poetry Company is building Australia’s first Youth Poet Laureate Program for poets aged 18-25. We’ll elevate the nation’s most brilliant young poets, embed their voices in public life, and gather audiences to enjoy their work. -
MAD Poetry
We are full of worlds that can't be contained by a pill. MAD Poetry creates a safe writing space for emerging voices with a lived/living experience of mental health issues to express how they see the world. -
Poem Forest 2026
Poem Forest is a free nature writing prize that breathes life back into the natural world that sustains us. Entries now open!
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After 23 years, Red Room Poetry is becoming The Poetry Company.
The organisation has grown significantly in scale, reach and ambition since 2003. The new name reflects who we are today and where we’re going next. Our name is changing, but our purpose remains the same: to make poetry visible, accessible and relevant for all.
Read more about why we changed our name here.